jducoeur

It's worth noting that both are valuable, but for somewhat different reasons. Letting everyone express themselves as they want to is important for morale; understanding their ideas is important because they provide a different viewpoint, and often have insights that the groupthink at the top might not have.

But the two are really separate goals. There are plenty of ways to solicit input from people that are non-public -- that can get those ideas into the stew through other channels. Letting them express those ideas in an *equal* way serves other purposes as well, beyond just knowing what they think...